NKY business bookings up in 2009

3:26 PM,
Mar. 16, 2010

Written by

Mike Rutledge
mrutledge@nky.com

COVINGTON - Staff at the Northern Kentucky Convention & Visitors Bureau made 12 percent more group business bookings in 2009 than in 2008 despite the difficult economy, the bureau announced Tuesday.

"The bright spot was the bookings that were generated by our sales team," said Tom Caradonio, the bureau's president and CEO. The convention center represents more than 40 percent of the bureau's total bookings, which also include events at hotels, meeting rooms and other locales in Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties.

But total economic impact of visitor spending dropped 14.5 percent last ...